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President Biden’s 2024 budget invests in people and communities and creates a 21st century tax system that supports these investments to build toward an economy that works for everyone
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President Biden’s fiscal year 2024 budget request both outlines modest increases in funding for housing and homelessness programs and proposes new funding to start making the type of investments...
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The House Republican debt-ceiling-and-cuts bill would, among other things, impose severe cuts on discretionary funding amounting to $3.6 trillion over the next ten years. If defense and veterans’...
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Although the final debt ceiling deal protects defense funding from cuts, it limits overall funding for non-defense programs funded through annual appropriations bills (often called “non-defense...
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What Are Project-Based Vouchers? Most Housing Choice Vouchers are “tenant-based,” meaning people can use them to rent any private apartment that meets program guidelines. Project-based vouchers (PBV),...
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The House and Senate bills funding Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) programs for 2024 take different approaches to dealing with tight spending caps. While both bills increase funding...
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Long-term property-specific rental assistance can reduce the cost of private market financing, encourage developers to include units affordable to the lowest-income households in their properties, and...
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Matthew Clarke is with the National Low Income Housing Coalition. With support from CBPP, the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) has released an update to the Rental Housing Programs...
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The Senate is expected to consider a spending bill soon that provides for substantially more rental assistance funding than in the corresponding House bill, but it would still fall short of fully...
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) published a notice last week expanding a promising policy that has been found to enable families with housing vouchers to choose to live in a wider...
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has called for private philanthropies to fund local pilots testing direct rental assistance, which is provided directly to tenants instead of...
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As Congress finalizes 2024 appropriations bills, it should prioritize fully renewing Housing Choice Vouchers by providing a significant increase over 2023 funding levels to avoid a sharp reduction in...
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Chairman Whitehouse, Ranking Member Grassley, and members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify before you this morning at this important hearing. I am Peggy Bailey, Vice President...
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Access to affordable housing and nutritious foods can have a significant impact on a person’s physical and mental health and ability to thrive. A new CBPP paper highlights guidance from the Centers for...
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Critical decisions lie ahead in three areas in particular: tax policy, health care, and investments in people and communities.
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Peggy Bailey makes policy recommendations for the housing affordability crisis that will move us toward the goal of ensuring that everyone in this country is able to afford safe, stable housing in a...
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Housing Choice Vouchers are highly effective at helping people with low incomes afford housing, but they could do better in important ways. Lawmakers should prioritize enacting legislation to make the...
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Homelessness has risen to historic levels, and the Supreme Court is about to weigh in on whether communities can fine or jail people for sleeping outside when they have nowhere safe to go. But evidence...
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Even in a divided country, we can agree that homelessness is terrible, especially in a country as rich as ours. We should also agree on the solutions that have been proven time and again to solve...
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